Tumblr feeds not working

[lemon24]

Because if you don't have a specific cookie, ALL pages (including the RSS feeds) redirect to https://www.tumblr.com/privacy/consent?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Frss

:sigh:

Related: https://discourse.tt-rss.org/t/change-on-tumblr-rss-feeds-not-working/1158/21

[lemon24]

I tried setting the cookie in this gist (the solution is similar to the one in the Tiny Tiny RSS issue).

I could only make it work by using Requests for getting everything, including the feed. If this is due to urllib/feedparser and not a bug in my code, the only solution would be to not rely on feedparser at all for the HTTP stuff; this means I'd have to use feedparser's parser objects directly instead of through parse().

Obviously, this also means I'd have to expose some feed fetch hook.

A comment in the Tiny Tiny RSS issue says that the Tumblr engineers are "actively working on this bug, but it’s going to take some more time to fully resolve". I'll just wait for now.

[lemon24]

The pull request above was probably overkill; see comments in it.